The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... force upon the market instru- ments and machines of bad quality . The result of the reduction was an almost immediate increase even in the export of articles in the manufacture of which it was maintained that France could never compete ...
... force upon the market instru- ments and machines of bad quality . The result of the reduction was an almost immediate increase even in the export of articles in the manufacture of which it was maintained that France could never compete ...
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... force in the Adriatic is respect- able . Pola , its principal station , notwithstanding its ancient grandeur , is a modern creation : from a poor and long - neglected seaport it has become a fortress of great importance , strongly ...
... force in the Adriatic is respect- able . Pola , its principal station , notwithstanding its ancient grandeur , is a modern creation : from a poor and long - neglected seaport it has become a fortress of great importance , strongly ...
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... force . In this manner the game is confused and retarded till the greyhounds come in . ' 6 The modern Orientals hunt gazelles , partridges , sand - grouse , quails , herons , bustards , & c . , by means of falcons ; sometimes , as in ...
... force . In this manner the game is confused and retarded till the greyhounds come in . ' 6 The modern Orientals hunt gazelles , partridges , sand - grouse , quails , herons , bustards , & c . , by means of falcons ; sometimes , as in ...
Page 60
... force in the capture of his prey . He dares not attack the boar , and flies as soon as he perceives either a man or a woman , or even a child ; if he catches a sheep , he makes off with his prey , but he abandons it to save himself when ...
... force in the capture of his prey . He dares not attack the boar , and flies as soon as he perceives either a man or a woman , or even a child ; if he catches a sheep , he makes off with his prey , but he abandons it to save himself when ...
Page 98
... indicating the absence of all tendency in the general mass to yield in one direction more than another to any forces which may be exerted to tear and rupture it by extension . This conclusion is important as regards it 98 Glacial Theories .
... indicating the absence of all tendency in the general mass to yield in one direction more than another to any forces which may be exerted to tear and rupture it by extension . This conclusion is important as regards it 98 Glacial Theories .
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Page 184 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 59 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 56 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 225 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 231 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 46 - Skiff. Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays...
Page 205 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 70 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 66 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 343 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!